Tuesday, December 30 - The Man with My Face

The Man with My Face (1951)

Charles “Chick” Graham (Barry Nelson) arrives home from work one evening to find he’s been replaced by an identical doppelganger playing cards with his wife Cora (Lynn Ainley) and her brother Buster Cox (John Harvey), who is also Chick’s best friend and army buddy. The two men had been stationed together in Puerto Rico so decided to return to the island and start an accounting business together. After the new Chick calls the police on the real Chick, the real Chick is compelled to leave his home and seek out help from his former girlfriend Mary Davis (Carole Matthews) who hasn’t stopped carrying a torch for him.

Monday, December 29 - Good Girls Go to Paris

Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, confides to English Professor Ronald Brooke that she is willing to gold-dig and blackmail her way to a Paris vacation. Her journey lands her in the New York home of Brooke's future in-laws: the wealthy and fractious Brand family. Jenny charms grandpa Olaf, and seems on her way to landing a rich suitor but her conscience and her heart may lead her in another direction.

Sunday, December 28 - The Fake

The Fake (1953)

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna and Child is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell (Dennis O'Keefe) is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason (Coleen Gray), a Tate employee, to recover the original.

Saturday, December 27 - A Lady Takes a Chance

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

City girl Mollie J. Truesdale (Jean Arthur) sets off on a two-week tourist trip of the American West, led by guide Smiley Lambert (Phil Silvers). Although Mollie is being wooed by three suitors back in New York City, it is macho cowboy Duke Hudkins (John Wayne) who catches her eye when they inadvertently meet at a rodeo. There is instant chemistry between them, but Mollie soon finds out that Duke likes his bachelor freedom, content with just his partner, Waco (Charles Winninger), and his horse.

Friday, December 26 - Fly-By-Night

Fly-By-Night (1942)

A doctor (Richard Carlson) accused of murder escapes with a woman (Nancy Kelly) to learn the wartime secret of "G32."

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff’s passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.

Thursday, December 25 - Girl in 313

Girl in 313 (1940)

A cat and mouse game in which a jewel thief turns out to be a detective, a detective turns out to be a jewel thief, and a model and jeweler turn out to be the head of a mob and his accomplice.

Wednesday, December 24 - Doctor Who: The Firemaker

Doctor Who: The Firemaker (Season 1 Episode 4 - aired Dec 14, 1963)

Kal accuses Za of Old Mother's murder but the Doctor exposes him as the real killer.However, Za then insists the travellers be held prisoner until they show him how to make fire.

Tuesday, December 23 - Doctor Who: The Cave of Skulls & The Forest of Fear

Doctor Who: The Cave of Skulls (Season 1 Episode 2 - aired Nov 30, 1963)

The TARDIS takes its new passengers back to the dawn of history. There, the Doctor and his party are captured by a tribe who are trying to rediscover the secret of fire.

Doctor Who: The Forest of Fear (Season 1 Episode 3 - aired Dec 7, 1963)

Old Mother frees the Doctor and the others on condition they will leave the tribe and not make fire.The group attempt to return to the TARDIS but Za and Hur follow them.

Monday, December 22 - The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp (1950)

In the Paddington area of west London in July 1949, PC George Dixon, a long-serving traditional policeman who is due to retire shortly, supervises new recruit Andy Mitchell, introducing him to the night beat. Dixon is unprepared when he is called to the scene of a robbery at a local cinema, where he comes face-to-face with Tom Riley, a desperate youth armed with a revolver. Dixon tries to convince Riley to surrender the weapon, but Riley panics and fires. Dixon dies in hospital some hours later.

On his beat, Mitchell finds a little girl playing with the discarded revolver. The child is eventually persuaded to lead police to the spot where she had found it. Police painstakingly drag a canal and find a raincoat that is traced to Diana Lewis's father, who remembers lending it to Riley.

In his arrogance, Riley goes to police headquarters to provide a false alibi for himself. All this accomplishes is to convince the police to place him under 24-hour watch. Riley is caught with the help of professional criminals and dog-track bookmakers, who identify him as he tries to hide in the crowd at White City greyhound track in West London. Credit for arresting Riley falls to young Mitchell.

Sunday, December 21 - Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child (Season 1 Episode 1 - aired Nov 23, 1963)

Two schoolteachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, become concerned by the unusual behavior of their fifteen-year-old student, Susan Foreman. When they follow her home, they meet her mysterious grandfather, the Doctor, and find themselves unwilling passengers on his time ship, the TARDIS.

Saturday, December 20 - The Killer Must Kill Again

L'assassino è costretto ad uccidere ancora (1975)

An adulterer (George Hilton) sees a killer (Michel Antoine) disposing of a body, then blackmails the man into killing his pesky wife, Nora. Unfortunately, a thrill-seeking young couple steal the killer's car with Nora's corpse in the trunk, ending up at a run-down seaside villa. The killer follows their trail and eventually finds them, violently raping the young girl when he finds her alone, then he knocks our her boyfriend upon his return. Now the young girl is left to fend for herself against the merciless killer.

Friday, December 19 - Assigned to Danger

Assigned to Danger (1948)

A gang of ex-convicts pull a holdup in an office building and the night-watchman is killed. The leader of the gang is wounded and they take refuge in a lodge belonging to the leader's wife. An insurance investigator registers at the lodge, posing as a doctor, and he is forced to operate on the wounded gang-leader. He recovers but is later murdered by a mute that works at the lodge. In the gunfight that follows, the investigator and the slain man's wife succeed in capturing what's left of the gang.